The Most Powerful Mini Gaming PC Yet...#Helpful Post

hey guys is Austin even though this

might look like a large box inside is

one of the most powerful and smallest

gaming computers that you can buy inside

this guy is the wonderfully named ZOTAC

Magnus ek7 1080 which stands for a

really powerful very small computer I

think so if you guys are familiar with

ZOTAC you know that they've been ma

king

small bare-bones pcs for quite a while

now and this is sort of the next

evolution of that as instead of having

something that's meant for like an

office like kind of a a low-end computer

this is a proper gaming box video with

the bare-bones is that while this does

have important components like obviously

the case and power supply as well as a

processor and graphics card there's no

memory there's no SSD and there's no OS

the idea here is that you can pretty

much supply whatever you want with this

guy but inside you're giving a core i7

7700 HQ processor as well as a full GTX

1080

correct this guy open and we get a giant

thank you for your purchase oh we also

get the kind of giant power adapter so

you know hopefully don't have a problem

with an enormous 330 watt power brick

that's sitting outside your computer

it's actually probably bout the same

size is it but I mean I guess with GT X

1080 inside you can't be too picky we

also have our antennas for the built-in

Wi-Fi as well as the power cord and

inside here we have the actual system

itself so it's not that big I'd say it's

about the size of like a tall shoebox

maybe that is a very dense little

computer again keep in mind this has a

GTX 1080 inside so the top is pretty

much nothing but ventilation which makes

sense considering the hardware inside

but up front we get not only an SD card

reader but also a full size USB 3 port a

USB type-c port as well as headphone and

microphone jacks around back it's fairly

basic we have 4 more USB 3.0 ports where

we actually install the antennas for our

Wi-Fi a pair of ethernet jacks which is

kind of interesting and then you get

your three display ports DVI and HDMI

from the video card one of the nice

parts about buying a bare-bones system

is that it comes pretty much ready to

work on so on bottom here we can install

not only a SATA SSD but also an M to

drive or an intel octane drive at the

same time which you also have a pair of

ddr4 sodam slots for your ram so now we

have the Z box all set up all it took

was installing 16

of ddr4 memory as well as a 512 gigabyte

SSD throwing a copy of Windows on here

and we are good to go so first off we

have GTA 5 even though it's a little bit

of an older game it still can be

surprisingly taxing and here running a

2560 by 1080 we're getting a pretty

decent frame rates between 70 to 90 now

this is an ultra wide monitor that does

have g-sync

so that 80 to 90 frames per second looks

great but in theory we could run it all

the way up to 166 frames per second we

want to bring the graphics settings down

a little bit that being said on this

giant ultra wide this looks really good

especially considering how tiny the PC

is it's crazy that this game can run an

Xbox 360 and yet it'll also look just

this awesome on a proper PC with a nice

monitor moving along we have Deus Ex

mankind dividing now well this might not

be the most popular game in the world it

still looks really nice especially when

you give it some good hardware to work

with and here at 2560 by 1080 with

pretty much everything cranked up we're

pretty much hitting 70 to 80 frames per

second I was about to say that a next

game is pub G but while I'm in the

loading screen I'm realizing that even

this stupid open area here is running

out like a hundred frames per second

this is gonna be good

where skydiving got a 105 frames per

second with G sync enabled so it

shouldn't be surprised that a GTX 1080

system is able to run pub G smoothly but

what is nice is just how easily it's

able to run it while still being quiet

so there is a little bit of coil whine I

noticed when you're actually really

taxing the CPU but the graphics seem to

be running pretty cool to put the size

of this in context this is the previous

version the zotac en 1070 as you can see

is much much smaller however not only

did it have a less powerful gtx 1070

inside but it also didn't run anywhere

near the same clock speeds of this 1080i

should probably not cover the exhaust

the question though is is the z box

worth it well before we answer that I'm

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helping to support the channel at

fifteen hundred dollars for the bare

bone kit or eighteen hundred dollars if

you don't want to deal with it and just

get it with memory SSD as well as

Windows pre-installed this guy

definitely doesn't come cheap however

when you consider just how expensive it

is to build yourself a PC today

especially with high-end components like

this that price isn't too crazy and of

course getting something that's this

small that you don't have to build

yourself is a huge plus it's not for

everyone but ZOTAC has built the most

powerful small form factor game PC I've

ever tried some curious what do you guys

think about these ZOTAC ZBOX let me know

in the comments below and I will catch

you on the next one